Word: donalds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long trip (several years ago Joe quit going along, but he has been in Canada, Mexico, and 36 states). At the head of the table, if he is not out on the road on his selling job, will be Joe's father, Donald Moore, 48, a patient, understanding man. Born on a poor little 120-acre farm over at Falling Waters in Putnam County, Donald was squeezed out of farming by the size of his family. He went to work selling Bibles-three different editions for teachers, three for home use and, along with them, a discreet book...
...dinner, grace is said by either Donald or Joe, in conversational man-to-man tones: "Father, we thank Thee for this day and particularly for this food. Go with us through the further part of this night. Amen." The meal is hearty. A typical menu: fried chicken, pole beans with lots of shelled ones mixed among the snaps, whippoorwills (brown peas), okra (fixed in a "made-up" dish with corn-bread crumbs and meats, so as to remove the slickness), corn, sweet potatoes, candied pears, eggbread sticks, biscuits, cake and ice cream. Most of the food is produced...
Under this influence, Joe took the big step that was to commit him finally to farming. Beginning to make good money from his Durocs, he decided he could do even better with a modern, sanitary farrowing barn. When his father resisted the idea, Joe and Donald came to a resentful impasse before Thelma intervened with a compromise. Donald ended up contributing $400 toward the new hog barn, with Joe paying another...
...Donald K. David, former dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, has been elected chairman of the executive committee of the Ford Foundation, it was learned yesterday...
...Donald A. Hall '51, a Junior Fellow and poetry editor of the Paris Review, won the 1955 Lamont Poetry Selection with a group of poems entitled "Exiles and Marriages," the Academy of American Poets announced yesterday...